WHAT IF YOU HELD AN OPEN HOUSE - AND NO ONE CAME?

Today was THE day for our OPEN HOUSE. Our realtor Ami told us that "open houses aren't effective in this market". I desparately wanted to prove her wrong. I painted, watered, planted, dusted, polished, staged - and when all was said and done not one person came to see the place.Could it be because Ami The Realtor did NOT put our address in the newspaper ad??
We had lemonade and cookies ready for the visitors. None were eaten - except by us. As a matter of fact, having been on Weight Watchers since May we normally don't eat sugar except on Sundays when we have our favorite DQ dipped cone. We ate those cookies like Grant took Richmond. The sugar high didn't help me feel better about the unsuccessful real estate marketing plan.
Pat has designed a new strateegery to lure agents with buyers - it's an incentive reward based on the buyer's offer to us. The closer to our asking price the more money for the agent. That went into effect on the MLS a few days ago. We can only hope it works! Meantime, we will keep rubbing our lucky angel every morning!